Can you believe we made it to the end of our season? 🎉 In this final episode of the Designers Plants and Coffee podcast, we’re toasting to a year of creativity, collaboration, and, let’s be real, some good ol’ caffeine-fueled conversations.
As we celebrate our successful year, we decided it’s time for a little break. You know, recharge the batteries and all that good stuff. We will be focusing on our individual businesses during our break and are looking forward to a great 2025!
As we closed out the season, we wish everyone happy holidays and encourage all creatives out there to keep pushing boundaries. We’ve got some exciting plans for spring, and trust me, you won’t want to miss it! So, grab your favorite mug, stay inspired, and let’s meet again in Q2. Cheers to creativity and new adventures! Happy New Year!
Check out our individual businesses:
Zahiyya: Cover Me Chic and Region Design Lab
Naima: Fearless Threads
LaTisha: Keeping You in Stitches
00:00:00,080 –> 00:00:04,740
Zahiyya: Welcome to the Designers Plants and Coffee podcast where we discuss how to succeed as a designer
00:00:04,800 –> 00:00:09,520
while staying true to yourself, finding peace in the process, and making money doing what we love.
00:00:09,520 –> 00:00:15,625
Subscribe on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. Let’s get into it. Hey.
00:00:15,625 –> 00:00:18,745
So we’re back for the last episode of the season.
00:00:18,745 –> 00:00:20,265
We’re gonna take a break after this.
00:00:20,265 –> 00:00:24,905
So we’re gonna go over the highlights of this year and what we’re looking forward to next year.
00:00:24,905 –> 00:00:27,085
So who wants to start it off? You.
00:00:28,250 –> 00:00:32,190
Naima: Our hostess with the most is is gonna start us off this time.
00:00:34,170 –> 00:00:36,810
Zahiyya: So, I mean, the highlight is we got through this year.
00:00:36,810 –> 00:00:39,530
We did full I mean, we didn’t miss the episode.
00:00:39,530 –> 00:00:42,285
We went full out, so that’s good. That’s a good accomplishment.
00:00:42,345 –> 00:00:43,465
Pack yourself away in the back.
00:00:43,465 –> 00:00:45,405
With that said, we need to take a break.
00:00:46,345 –> 00:00:48,765
Naima: Yeah. Yeah. It’s been a year.
00:00:48,905 –> 00:00:52,205
Zahiyya: We’re gonna focus in on our businesses, individually.
00:00:52,505 –> 00:00:58,560
Hopefully, we will be back, Q2 of next year. So what’s that? Around March or so?
00:00:58,560 –> 00:01:03,600
What I’m looking forward to next year is just dialing in on Cover Me Chic and Regent Design Lab.
00:01:03,600 –> 00:01:07,140
I am publishing to social media now, which is great.
00:01:08,675 –> 00:01:11,415
So that’s still not as consistent. It’s an improvement.
00:01:11,475 –> 00:01:15,635
So I’m just, you know, dialing in and and going hard for those 2 next year.
00:01:15,635 –> 00:01:19,975
LaTisha: As for me, I am working on keeping in stitches.
00:01:20,355 –> 00:01:25,470
I’ve, and I’m really looking into 3 d and AI for fashion.
00:01:25,690 –> 00:01:29,070
Also, just developing more 3 d assets.
00:01:30,010 –> 00:01:34,890
Really need to utilize LinkedIn more for, social media things. But
00:01:34,970 –> 00:01:41,205
Zahiyya: Yeah. Touching on what you just said, Tish, in terms of, like, using AI, I actually really incorporated
00:01:41,345 –> 00:01:46,465
that into what I’m doing too because it’s like, how can you not I mean, I do draw, but it also
00:01:46,465 –> 00:01:51,170
does speed up the process because, say, I I do a sketch and then I put it through the AI, and
00:01:51,170 –> 00:01:55,910
I say, oh, give it, like, blue jeans and, you know, a orange top, whatever.
00:01:56,050 –> 00:01:58,690
And then then it renders it, like and it looks real.
00:01:58,690 –> 00:02:01,810
So it’s just like it takes your sketch, and it makes it look real.
00:02:01,810 –> 00:02:04,692
So I’m using that for all the patterns for Cover Me Chic.
00:02:04,692 –> 00:02:08,102
So you and I, both of us, we will be doing AI
00:02:08,102 –> 00:02:12,364
Naima: next year. I am uninformed and uneducated, so I’m gonna pay people who are educated.
00:02:12,364 –> 00:02:18,900
LaTisha: But the more you use AI, the more you ask the more you feed it, the smarter it gets. So Yeah.
00:02:19,140 –> 00:02:22,200
Naima: Alright. I guess it’s I guess it’s round to me.
00:02:22,660 –> 00:02:31,720
I would say the highlight for me is as we have been putting ourselves out there and meeting
00:02:31,780 –> 00:02:35,955
people, people are recognizing us, and it’s kinda awesome.
00:02:36,255 –> 00:02:42,575
And it’s kind of between that and teaching, it’s kinda made me realize that I had an epiphany. It was like, hey.
00:02:42,575 –> 00:02:45,055
You’re really kinda good at this thing here.
00:02:45,055 –> 00:02:47,955
So, you know, again, kudos to us.
00:02:48,495 –> 00:02:54,060
I think that we go into this and we’re thinking, oh, nobody’s gonna listen to what we wanna say.
00:02:54,060 –> 00:02:56,700
And then you get that, oh my god. I love you guys.
00:02:56,700 –> 00:02:59,760
And you’re like, somebody listen. So that’s a highlight.
00:03:00,460 –> 00:03:05,025
For me, I wanna get back to fearless threads stuff.
00:03:05,645 –> 00:03:07,325
I’ve kinda pushed it to the side.
00:03:07,325 –> 00:03:09,245
I haven’t been really creating things.
00:03:09,245 –> 00:03:12,865
I’ve been in this selfish, I only wanna sew for me phase.
00:03:13,005 –> 00:03:17,860
So I’m gonna take this hiatus and see what kind of products I wanna work.
00:03:17,860 –> 00:03:19,560
I might do a little revamp.
00:03:19,700 –> 00:03:22,740
There may or may not be a couple of pieces of clothes coming on.
00:03:22,740 –> 00:03:24,340
People have been asking me for years.
00:03:24,340 –> 00:03:29,320
I know whoever’s list some of some of my regulars are gonna say, oh my gosh. She’s making clothes. Not custom.
00:03:29,675 –> 00:03:29,995
LaTisha: We’ll make
00:03:29,995 –> 00:03:33,055
Naima: that very clear. There will be no custom garment.
00:03:33,115 –> 00:03:36,575
And there may be a collab from this podcast in the works.
00:03:36,635 –> 00:03:39,995
So, yeah, they stay tuned. You gotta come back.
00:03:39,995 –> 00:03:44,575
When we come back fresh in the spring to see what we’ve been working on or follow our social media.
00:03:44,860 –> 00:03:45,020
LaTisha: Absolutely.
00:03:45,180 –> 00:03:47,360
Naima: We’ve been working on since things are coming.
00:03:47,420 –> 00:03:52,060
LaTisha: I have to say, also, the highlight for the podcast is getting some of the information.
00:03:52,060 –> 00:03:59,585
I have tons of information that I have out and then getting to discuss it with like minded creative. So it’s like, hey.
00:03:59,585 –> 00:04:05,205
All the creative people come over. Let’s talk about this.
00:04:05,505 –> 00:04:07,505
And then seeing people eyes light up.
00:04:07,505 –> 00:04:16,070
Also, stepping out of my comfort zone and going to, the frog house where it’s literally normal
00:04:16,450 –> 00:04:21,990
to walk up to someone and say, can I touch your can I touch your your garment? And they’re like, absolutely.
00:04:22,370 –> 00:04:27,410
Zahiyya: I look I’m I’m looking forward to doing more of that type of thing, next year because like Tish,
00:04:27,410 –> 00:04:31,125
that was way out of my comfort zone. Zone.
00:04:31,125 –> 00:04:33,845
I I usually don’t do, like, events and stuff like that. Mhmm.
00:04:33,845 –> 00:04:34,965
But it it was cool.
00:04:34,965 –> 00:04:39,445
It was cool to get out and meet other creative people and having the creative people on.
00:04:39,445 –> 00:04:40,745
Naima: They’re like, oh my god.
00:04:40,805 –> 00:04:42,585
They’re all nerds like me.
00:04:43,110 –> 00:04:47,390
So, you know, they’re they all love color and texture. And and so Mhmm.
00:04:47,510 –> 00:04:51,450
Those are those are things that are coming in our near future.
00:04:51,750 –> 00:04:54,250
LaTisha: And teaching, teaching, teaching, teaching.
00:04:54,310 –> 00:04:56,090
Naima: Yes. I am officially a professor.
00:04:56,470 –> 00:04:56,970
LaTisha: Yes.
00:04:58,015 –> 00:05:01,535
Naima: My first semester is under my belt, so more to come.
00:05:01,535 –> 00:05:05,375
LaTisha: Yeah. It’s kinda cool when they say, professor Winston, professor Winston.
00:05:05,375 –> 00:05:06,915
I’m like, who are they calling to?
00:05:07,135 –> 00:05:12,530
Naima: It’s funny for me because a lot of my students, are a little more seasoned.
00:05:12,670 –> 00:05:13,170
Zahiyya: Yes.
00:05:13,550 –> 00:05:19,230
Naima: And so I tell them to call me professor Naima and to not call me miss because it’s weird Yeah.
00:05:19,390 –> 00:05:25,115
For me to have someone who could be my mother calling me miss.
00:05:25,115 –> 00:05:30,075
And I know it’s the respect thing, but I’m like, that kinda weirds me out because I’m calling you miss. It’s cool though.
00:05:30,075 –> 00:05:35,835
I mean, just to give that gift and and watch that moment happen. Thank you.
00:05:35,835 –> 00:05:41,700
My students are a great reflection of you’re never too old, and it’s never too late.
00:05:42,000 –> 00:05:44,580
I had, one of my students is 74.
00:05:44,960 –> 00:05:46,500
Another one is, like, 68.
00:05:46,720 –> 00:05:50,960
So I think my youngest student was probably 4 years older than me.
00:05:50,960 –> 00:05:52,080
LaTisha: Yeah. Yeah. But it’s
00:05:52,080 –> 00:05:54,445
Zahiyya: it’s never too late to do to start anything.
00:05:54,505 –> 00:05:57,465
So it’s like, don’t let that stop you from doing anything real.
00:05:57,465 –> 00:05:59,645
Naima: It’s our word of wisdom to take us out.
00:05:59,705 –> 00:06:02,105
You’re not too old, and it’s never too late.
00:06:02,105 –> 00:06:05,325
Zahiyya: So then I guess that’s it for, 2024.
00:06:05,945 –> 00:06:07,805
Does any last words from anyone?
00:06:07,865 –> 00:06:13,270
Naima: I would say happy holidays from the DPC crew.
00:06:13,730 –> 00:06:20,850
We want you to stay creative while we are behind the scenes making great content for you guys
00:06:20,850 –> 00:06:24,275
when we come back in the spring. And we’re always here.
00:06:24,275 –> 00:06:30,195
I mean, even though you can catch our replays, you will be able to relisten to some of our favorite
00:06:30,195 –> 00:06:33,555
episodes in our time out, so you can always find us.
00:06:33,555 –> 00:06:37,850
Zahiyya: I am Zahiyya from Region Design Lab and Cover Me Chic along with
00:06:37,930 –> 00:06:40,590
LaTisha: LaTisha from Keeping You in Stitches.
00:06:40,650 –> 00:06:44,110
Naima: And Naima from Fearless Threads. Professor Naima to you.
00:06:46,933 –> 00:06:48,133
Zahiyya: See you next time.
00:06:48,133 –> 00:06:49,913
LaTisha: Bye. Happy New Year.
00:06:50,053 –> 00:06:51,193
Zahiyya: Happy New Year.
Subscribe to our newsletter with stories from our experience in the fashion industry and the best design tips.
We publish bi-weekly on Friday’s at 7am.